Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 66
It is meet that we should prepare for the wedding; pray do me this small service.
Who acts: help, we · What happens: be, prepare, pray, do · To what, where: small service, me
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (help, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 meet | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | cop |
| 3 | meet | meet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 prepare | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 prepare | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 prepare | aux |
| 7 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 meet | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 wedding | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wedding | det |
| 10 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepare | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 pray | punct |
| 12 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 meet | parataxis |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pray | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | iobj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 service | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 service | amod |
| 17 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | help | meet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prepare | should | we | for the wedding | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wedding=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | pray | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do | infinitive | this small service | me | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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